English

Year 2 will be exploring 'Rosie Revere, Engineer' this half term.

Key skills involve:

Writing Outcome & Writing Purpose

Fiction: Invention Narrative Purpose: To narrate Non-Fiction: Explanation Text Purpose

To explain Grammar: Word Build on previous units & focus on:

Formation of nouns by compounding

Learn how to use the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives  

Use of the suffix –ly to turn adjectives into adverbs

Grammar: Sentence Build on previous units & focus on:

Expanded noun phrases for description and specification

Subordination (using when, if, that, because) Co-ordination (or, and, so, but)

How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicates its function as an exclamation Grammar:

Text Build on previous units & focus on:

Correct choice and consistent use of past and present tense throughout writing

Grammar: Punctuation Build on previous units & focus on:

Use of capital letters, full stops and question marks to demarcate sentences.

Apostrophes to mark singular possession Commas to separate items in a list